The Wild Bunch & Other Scenes — Aquarelles and Pen Drawings (early 1980s)

Made in my Ringsted studio in the early ’80s, these watercolours and pen drawings treat the studio as a stage. A rotating group of friends—“the Wild Bunch”—improvised performances with the simplest of props: coloured nylon stockings. Stretched, knotted, veiled and slingshotted, the stockings turned bodies into elastic sculptures. The quick aquarelle washes catch the movement; the pen lines hold the punchline—part cabaret, part study of form, disguise and play.

Alongside the studio antics are surreal nature-conservation tableaux: curtains open onto savannahs, chessboards, columns and barricades; animals, targets and masks share the same scene. Humor flips into critique. The works ask what we protect, what we perform—and who, exactly, is watching.